Kansai International Airport
Kansai International Airport (関西国際空港, Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) (IATA: KIX, ICAO: RJBB) is a Japanese airport in Osaka.[1] It is an international airport for the region. The airport is in three different cities because of where it is built. [2]
The airport is on an artificial island in Osaka Bay, 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Ōsaka Station.
It opened 4 September 1994, and the gross area is 1,068ha. This airport has two runways. One is 3500m×60m, and the other is 4000×60m. In 2011, the total number of passengers was 13,651,184 (9,902,449 were international and 3,748,735 were domestic), and of landing was 53,899 (38,252 were international and 15,647 were domestic).[3]
Kansai International Airport Media
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Third floor boarding lobby, within the longest airport terminal in the world
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Satellite photo of Kansai Airport (lower-right island) in Osaka Bay. Kobe Airport is being built on the unfinished island near the middle of the photo. Central Osaka is in the upper-right corner, along with Osaka International.
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Osaka Kansai International Airport Map
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Kansai International Airport with the terminal building in the background
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4th floor ticketing hall, illustrating the terminal's airfoil roof
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Second phase of Kansai International Airport under construction
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The airport, flooded by Typhoon Jebi
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Kansai International Airport's roof
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Terminal 1 interior escalator
Terminal 2 departures lobby
Related pages
References
- ↑ Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MLIT), Kansai International Airport. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- ↑ "Kansai and Kobe International Airport (Osaka Bay, Japan)". esa. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ↑ "milt.go.jp" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
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